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Unknown Artist, follower of Perino del Vaga
A Design for Fireplace: a nereid, Unicorn, Mask, and Coat-of-Arms
1545

This drawing was probably done for the fireplace in the sala della Biblioteca of the castel Sant’Angelo, Rome. A drawing in the British Museum for the fireplace is attributed to Luzio Romano (P. Pouncey and J. A. Gere, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum , London, 1962, no. 186, pl. 155). Both Perino del vaga and Pelligrino Tibaldi worked in Castel Sant’Angelo in the 1540s.

 
Artist
Unknown Artist, follower of Perino del Vaga
Title
A Design for Fireplace: a nereid, Unicorn, Mask, and Coat-of-Arms
Date
1545
Category
European Historical
Medium
pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk on paper
Dimensions
height / width: 26.40 x 21.80 cm; 10.39 x 8.58 in.
Credit Line
Gift of Bayside Lakeshore Properties Ltd., Montreal, 1998
Accession Number
41-018.20

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